Traffic
Six Mile Road & Island Highway
Traffic lights
Related Owen article: lane markings →Owen’s separate proposal, not a consultant recommendation.
Safety in the report 2019–2024
- Safety grade
- FHighest concern
- Collisions
- 1306-year total
- Count rank
- #2of 13 sites
Rank 1 had the most recorded crashes among these 13 locations. It does not measure your chance of a collision.
How to read these numbers
Collision records cover January 2019 to December 2024, a six-year total. They cannot tell us whether changes made in 2025 or later have improved safety.
For safety grades, A means lowest concern and F means highest. The report looks at how often crashes happened and how serious they were. Its engineers can adjust the seriousness rating based on crash patterns and conditions. Traffic delays have a separate grading system.
Rank compares collision totals for the 13 places studied in detail. Equal counts share a rank. It does not account for how many people drive, walk or cycle through each place.
From the June 2026 report
Afternoon southbound backups spread to nearby intersections.
Find your bearings
This is the report’s PM-peak operations analysis at Island Highway and Six Mile Road, alongside what was observed upstream and downstream.
2 findings explained
Each heading is a separate finding. Open it to see the explanation and source.
Where: On the southbound through movement on Island Highway at Six Mile Road.
What the report found
The report found this movement over capacity, with unstable flow, extended delay and queues. It says the southbound queue was observed reaching back to the Atkins Road and Burnside Road intersections, then extending along Burnside past Highway 1.
Why it matters
A delay at this junction can therefore show up as a stopped or slow trip before a driver reaches Six Mile Road, including on nearby routes.
Evidence in the report
The PM model lists V/C 1.01 and a 95th percentile queue of 300 m for the southbound through movement.
Where: The northbound left from Island Highway and eastbound movements from Six Mile Road.
How this connects to nearby roads
The report describes traffic backups linking these places. This shows those connections; it is not a live traffic update.